Prevalence

Obstructive sleep apnea is highly prevalent and more severe disease appears to be associated with higher blood pressure among patients with resistant hypertension, a recent study suggests.

Newly diagnosed patients with ankylosing spondylitis in Taiwan demonstrate increased risks for multiple immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, including acute anterior uveitis, psoriasis, thromboangiitis obliterans, Behcet’s disease and sarcoidosis, according to findings published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk for cancer in women, a recent analysis of the European Sleep Apnoea Database study suggests.

In the general population, both high and low levels of hemoglobin were linked to a greater long-term risk for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, data published in Neurology showed.

Variant frequency in the filaggrin gene was strongly associated with race among pediatric patients with atopic dermatitis.

One in 10 older adults in the United States are current binge drinkers, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society.

Although rates of bacterial meningitis are low among neonates and infants, researchers estimated that febrile children in the first month of life are at nearly twice the risk for having bacterial meningitis compared with febrile children aged older than 1 month, according to a meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

An estimated 7.7 million American children have depression, anxiety or ADHD, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. However, nearly half of these children do not receive treatment or counseling for their condition.

Overall hand hygiene compliance increased during a 2-year “friendly competition” in the Netherlands in which staff at 10 health care centers were observed and ranked based on their compliance, according to researchers.

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, is transmitted within and between a variety of health care settings in Washington, D.C., a study presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of American spring conference suggests.